The makerspace is the home of Friends’ Central’s rapidly growing maker movement. As with the explosive growth of maker culture worldwide, the FCS community is embracing the values of openness, collaboration, human-centered design, and the deeply human desire to create things of personal and public value.

Agency – “What are you making?”
Query: Do students feel valued for the talents they bear, empowered to take intellectual risks, and capable of determining, without my intervention, when “good” is “good enough”?

On Monday, educational design consulting company PlusUs announced that Friends’ Central School was one of four finalists for their inaugural Desing for Learning Grant. The grant provides six months of the East Falls-based company’s time to design a solution to a project pertaining to instruction, strategy, communications, teacher training or physical learning environments.